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Locals can view the 2021 Sequim Irrigation Festival royalty float reveal at 4:45 p.m. Saturday from the festival’s website, www.irrigationfestival.com. Last year’s float, pictured here, was used only for the 2020 Kickoff Dinner and Grand Parade/Procession due to the pandemic. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Irrigation Festival kicks off Saturday in Sequim

Float reveal, auction open online for all

Rachel Anderson of Sequim speaks to a crowd of about 30 people about how she supports the Asian American community and how attacks on women need to stop. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim rally supports Asian American community

SEQUIM — About 30 people gathered in downtown Sequim to stand against Asian American hate crimes.

Sequim city councilor Mike Pence. Photo courtesy of City of Sequim

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Sequim council member urged to resign over résumé discrepancies

Pence denies wrongdoing, saying his qualifications are true

Sequim City Council members will begin the process of choosing a new city manager, and it will include interim city manager Charisse Deschenes. Her contract isn’t broken if council members begin a search, city staff confirmed.

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Sequim City Council to work with firm for city manager search

Debate heard over timing

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Sequim seeks concepts before allocating funds to downtown redesign

Staff say preliminary funding would help with grant requests

Construction on a roundabout at the intersection of Sequim-Dungeness Way and Woodcock Road could begin this July and finish by September. Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Clallam County’s first roundabout slated

Project will take about two months to complete

Rosalie DiMaggio inspects a wheelchair as part of her church’s effort to bring in enough wheelchairs, canes, walkers and more to fill a 40-foot storage container and send to Guatemala. (Matthew Nash /Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Dungeness Community Church seeks wheelchairs for Guatemalans

Volunteers to pick up donations from Port Angeles to Port Townsend

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Sequim to host community talks on race, equity, inclusion

First virtual event set for Saturday

Club members of the North Olympic Peninsula Railroaders began work in 2013 on a model of the Milwaukee Railroad system that ran in the area, and they hope to continue the work elsewhere in a donated space in the Sequim or Port Angeles areas. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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Train club seeks new space for Peninsula railway model

History Center explores options for Lincoln School

Work to protect the marine environment continues in Sequim, just under a new name as the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory. Here in November 2016, researchers George Bonheyo, left, and Robert Jeters with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory apply an aggregator during a demonstration in a freezer laboratory in Sequim to show how the product bunches oil together in icy conditions. Bonheyo, PNNL senior research scientist for the laboratory and a research professor of biotechnology for Washington State University – Pullman, said it acts like a wick so that it can burn the oil more efficiently than chemicals. File photo by Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Sequim science facility becomes Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory for broader approach

More than 100 active projects continue despite pandemic

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Friends, neighbors keep mask tree going

SEQUIM — For 11 months, Danette Bemis and friends have been extending some peace of mind to Sequim…

Photo courtesy of Silas Crews Lindsey Coffman, last year’s Sequim Irrigation Festival queen, crowns Hannah Hampton in a virtual royalty pageant.

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Queen, princesses crowned for virtual Sequim Irrigation Festival

Scholarship pageant makes its debut with online platform

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Sequim seeks input on redesign of downtown corner

Artists, surveys to help with public engagement

Charisse Deschenes will serve as Sequim interim city manager for up to six months when city councilors will evaluate promoting her and/or begin a search for a different permanent city manager. Photo courtesy of Charisse Deschenes

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Sequim names interim city manager

Contract gives council six months to consider Deschenes in permanent position

Royalty contestants for the Sequim Irrigation Festival include, from left, Zoee Kuperus, Sydney VanProyen, Hannah Hampton and Allie Gale. Sequim's queen and court will be shown at 6 p.m. Saturday online at the festival's Facebook page and website. (Keith Ross/Keith’s Frame Of Mind)

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Irrigation royalty to be crowned online Saturday

Four students in competition have focused platforms

Rashi Jain of Seattle smells some lavender products in the Let's Do Lavender booth at the Lavender Festival Street Fair in July 2019. This summer will be the second consecutive time the novel coronavirus pandemic has led organizers to cancel the Street Fair in Carrie Blake Community Park. Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Sequim Lavender Growers Association cancels 2021 Street Fair

Organizers encourage people to shop at farms online, in person

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Port Angeles man accused in Sequim theft

Expensive guitars recovered from nearby apartment complex

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Low-income advocate to sit on Sequim City Council

Rachel Anderson looks to bring people together

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MAT clinic ruling appears to end litigation

Community groups and leaders call for kindness

Six of nine candidates for the vacant Sequim city council seat participated in a forum hosted by the Sequim Good Governance League on Feb. 9. They included, clockwise from top left, Vicki Lowe, Daryl Scott Ness, Janine Bocciardi, Kathy Downer, Rachel Anderson and Lowell Rathbun. David Rich could not participate due to a family obligation, Cynthia Dinan was ill and Autumn Wolfgang could not be reached. Candidates will be interviewed in a special meeting by city councilors Monday.

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Sequim City Council applicants talk priorities, views

Second forum moved to Monday night

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